New publication: Freakoffs or Trafficking: How the Sean Combs Trial Verdict Impacts Public Perceptions of Sex Trafficking www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V3VUH...

I hope people can go see Blue Heron. It was such a moving film and we have a great community conversation about youth mental health

Wrote this a few years ago and it still is relevant. I have been writing about Megan Thee Stallion’s experiences with digital misogynoir since 2021. Here’s a thread of my work on digital misogynoir + meg + women in hip hop www.kalyncoghill.com/blog/Blog%20...

In Her Own Words: Meg, Interiority, and Digital Misogynoir — Dr. Kay Coghill (they/them)

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“I’m hoping that people are not becoming numb or immune to this,” @drapryla.bsky.social said. “In order for us to think about solutions, we all have to be invested in really examining the underlying factors behind these incidents.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Shreveport has a message for America: Don't look away

Shreveport asks for a focus on domestic violence. But some Americans, according to experts, will look away, partly to protect their own mental health.

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Someone sent me this.

Join us at our inaugural Violence Prevention is Public Health Annual Symposium at UNC Charlotte. 📅 April 9, 2026 | 12–5 PM 📍 UNC Charlotte Popp Martin Student Union Theatre 🔗 Register: bit.ly/VPisPH 🗒️ View Full Agenda: bit.ly/4toxLfv

It's Niner Nation Gives Day! 💚 I'm asking you to support the @UNCCharlotte Violence Prevention Center — our work on human trafficking, sexual violence, suicide prevention & LGBTQ+ health reaches from NC to the U.K. ninernationgives.charlotte.edu/giving-day/1... #NinerNationGives #NinerNation

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Save The Date: March 31 - April 2, 2026

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I’ve been discussing data centers in my class this term, but was still surprised to see a zoning petition to place one in my neighborhood. Regulations are needed to reduce the health & environmental consequences. Here is my op-ed in the Charlotte Observer: www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...

A proposed data center in Charlotte shows why the city should slow down | Opinion

Residents, like my neighbors and me, deserve clear regulations and clarity on core issues with these facilities | Opinion

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Went to Regal’s Monday Mystery Movie, which was Slanted. There was moment in the movie that evoked so much fragility that people walked out! 🤯 SMH 😒

53% of Americans surveyed described their fellow citizens' ethics & morality as bad. (92% of Canadians view their countrymen as good.) At least we're not denying it, I guess. The first step in solving a problem... Survey: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad | Pew Research Center

Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

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BIG ESSENCE. FIRST OP-ED. ALL ME. BIG MAMA. RUN IT UP. www.essence.com/news/ai-raci...

I’ve Battled Racist Online Trolls For Years. AI Is A Whole Different Beast | Essence

Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, I notified my followers on Instagram that I was speaking to Yahoo! News about what such a monumental attack on reproductive […]

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At the Violence Prevention Center, we translate evidence into action—training professionals, informing policy, and developing research-driven programs. Your gift this #GivingTuesday fuels that mission. 📚💡 Donate now: tinyurl.com/VPCCLT #EndViolence #CharlotteVPC #GivingTuesday

I’m never going to forget when “Watchmen” had that scene depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre and so many Black people online lamented that they were never taught that history. It was by design. Oklahoma didn’t make it a part of school curriculum till 2020. Whew that was heavy.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.

US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 White men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery | CNN

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the runni...

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This is beyond damaging to public health. It’s by design of course but still devastating

Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition

Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.

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STATEMENT : "Let us be clear: Donald Trump's approach to homelessness does nothing to address the sky-high cost of rent, which remains the main cause of homelessness. Instead, his reckless actions are cruel and backward and will force even more people to sleep outside”

National Homelessness Law Center@homelesslaw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today, instead of using their power to help people pay rent, access healthcare, or lower the cost of groceries, Trump doubled down on backwards polices that will force 170,000 people-who are currently stably housed- back into homelessness. Our statement: buff.ly/qA4H2kk

The @successcollab.bsky.social was so delighted to have @drapryla.bsky.social come talk about her work within the realm of advocacy and public scholarship! We all were inspired and invigorated to do better and use our science to help the public!

I'm in Detroit. It's 25 degrees & dropping. I met a woman who has slept outside for 5 months. Yesterday, all of her belongings, incl her blankets, were thrown away. She has nowhere else to go. It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

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Our Center’s suicide prevention training postdoc ad is live! The DoD-funded position will work with Drs. Robert Cramer, Annelise Mennicke, and Jessamyn Moxie on a training e-learning platform in partnership with Dr. Justin Baker and the Ohio State U team! jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64918

We’re hiring a Department Chair for Public Health and Health Administration at UNC Charlotte. See the job listing here: jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64712

ICYMI: My conversation with THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR director Geeta Gandbhir.

Robert Daniels@812filmreviews.com · 10mo ago

The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR. For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.

My research team began studying stand your ground laws and public perceptions after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Botham Jean. So I knew of Ajike Owen’s murder…however, I was still unprepared for The Perfect Neighbor. I’m glad this story was amplified but gutted at this tragedy.

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

Casmilus@casmilus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Good PBS News Hour piece tonight on how abortion restrictions compromise women's domestic safety. In the US, a pregnant/postpartum woman's risk of being killed is 20% higher than that of other women; she is more likely die by murder than from childbirth-related issues. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Abortion restrictions may be fueling a rise in domestic violence, experts warn

On average, a woman’s risk of being killed in the U.S. increases by 20% when pregnant or after giving birth. Pregnant and postpartum women are more likely to be killed than to die from childbirth-rela...

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There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location. 

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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